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Thursday, January 9 2020 Issue #5818
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Colin Vassallo -[mailto:editor@...]-

Another good round of Wednesday wrestling yesterday. Glad both shows are back live, they bring out the best of each other and that's the plus side of having competition.


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BACKSTAGE RATING

- WWE Backstage this week did 124,000 viewers, up from the 97,000 viewers the show did on New Year's Eve. This week's guest was The Miz, with Young, Booker, Christian, and Paige back together on the panel. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

DUSTY TAG TEAM CLASSIC TOURNAMENT STARTS

- The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament commenced on yesterday's NXT on USA Network with two matches taking place. In the first tournament match, Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel of Imperium defeated Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake, the tag team known as The Forgotten Sons to advance to the semi-finals and then Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly of The Undisputed Era defeated Mark Coffey and Wolfgang of Gallus in the second tournament match of the night to book their own spot in the semi-finals. Next week, Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne will take on Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster in the first match and the Grizzled Young Veterans take on Kushida and Alex Shelley in the second match. The semi-final matches will take place on the January 22 episode of NXT while there's no date announced for the finals yet.

KUSHIDA AND ALEX SHELLEY REUNITING

- Kushida's mystery partner for the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament was revealed to be Alex Shelley. The 36-year-old Shelley has wrestled for ROH, TNA, and NJPW and together with Kushida, the two won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles twice as The Time Splitters. The two formed the tag team in 2012 and wrestled together till 2015, losing their titles to ReDRagon, the team of Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly who are now part of The Undisputed Era. Shelley is a veteran tag team wrestler having also wrestled with Chris Sabin as The Motor City Machine Guns for over five years while in TNA.

BATTLE ROYAL TO DETERMINE NEW NUMBER ONE CONTENDER FOR NXT'S WOMEN'S TITLE

- A number one contender for the NXT Women's title will be decided next week in a big battle royal featuring some of NXT's best females on the roster. The battle royal so far includes, in alphabetical order, Bianca Belair, Candice LeRae, Chelsea Green, Dakota Kai, Io Shirai, Kayden Carter, Mia Yim, Santana Garrett, Shotzi Blackheart, Vanessa Borne, and Xia Li. The winner of this battle royal will then go ahead to challenge Rhea Ripley at the upcoming NXT Takeover: Portland for the title on Sunday, February 16.

CHELSEA GREEN AND ROBERT STONE DEBUT ON NXT

- A pair of former Impact Wrestling stars made their NXT debut last night on USA Network. Chelsea Green, formerly known as Laurel Van Ness, showed up on the broadcast and beat up Mia Yim and Lacey Lane. She had already wrestled on Raw and Main Event but looks to be placed in NXT for the time being. Joining her was Robert Stone, the man formerly known as Robbie E. Stone came out after Green disposed of the other two and said that Chelsea is the first talent signed to his stable. Stone signed a WWE deal in March 2019 and was appearing at non-televised live events as a manager of different NXT talent. He came from Impact Wrestling where he spent seven years with the promotion. You can watch their debut at .

DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE RETURNS ON DYNAMITE, TO WRESTLE NEXT WEEK

- WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page will be making his AEW in-ring debut next week on Dynamite live from Miami. Page interrupted MJF's segment yesterday on the show as MJF waited for Cody to give him the answers he wanted. Page called MJF a "motormouth jackoff" and talked about how long it's been since he'd been in a ring live on TNT. As DDP continued, MJF called the Butcher, the Blade, and the Bunny out and vowed to send Page to hospice and then he would get one of his daughters in his bed and...bang. That was enough for DDP to hear who attacked MJF but the Butcher and the Blade came to the rescue. They were met with Diamond Cutters but MJF hit a low blow. QT Marshall and Dustin Rhodes came out to help Dallas Page as MJF bolted. AEW then announced that Rhodes, Marshall, and Page would be taking on MJF, the Butcher, and the Blade on next week's show which has a Bash at the Beach theme. Page was sporting his WWE Hall of Fame ring during the promo.


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